PORTFOLIO
JACKSON
COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE & PLANNING UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER
JACKSON PAUL PEDRAZZI
1801 Arapahoe Street Apt 1206, Denver CO 80202
jacksonpedrazzi@gmail.com
917.288.1244
EDUCATION
University of Colorado, Denver College of Architecture & Planning
Bachelor of Science in Architecture – expected May 2024
Fordham Preparatory School Bronx, New York
Graduated 2020
EXPERIENCE studioPEDRAZZI Architects, New York
Summer Internship 2021 & 2022
Focusing on high-end residential design in the Hamptons & North Fork Long Island, NY
Assisted in design studies and collaboration with the lead architect of custom ground-up homes and enlargements
Assisted in the development of design presentations to clients including renderings and material boards
Model making with 3-D Ultimaker Printer: site conditions model with private residence and landscaping
Field survey of residential homes and drafting existing conditions
Silver Lining Restaurant, Southampton NY
Waitstaff and table runner
Summer 2019
Corcoran Real Estate New York, NY
Assistant to Real Estate Broker as open house escort
Part-time 2017-2018
SKILLS Software Knowledge: Intermediate - Rhino, Adobe Illustrator, Enscape, Revit, Photoshop, InDesign
Effective Communicator, Task-focused, Strong Organizational Skills, Team Player
INTERESTS History, Music, Travel, Nature
RESUME I
SELECTED WORKS
SOCIETAL EXPOSES
ARTIST LOFTS - DENVER CO.
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Studio 4
BESSEMER COMMUNITY
SUN HALL - BESSEMER, CO.
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Studio 3
LIFE CYCLE
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Studio 2
ALTERNATIVE EXPERIENCE
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Studio 2
TEXTONIC/STEROTOMIC MODEL
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Studio 1
SHELTER
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Studio 1
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CONCEPT STATEMENT
Our Project boldly highlights the balance of good and bad, light and dark, and ourselves as an individual within society, while also illuminating the problem within established power hierarchies in capitalism. The outcome of the project is to familiarize the public with the harsh reality of our society and its systems. This creates a social conversation in which we as a society can accept its flaws rather than turn a blind eye to them. The space which we have designed stands for the belief that there is no good without bad, art without greed. We have begun creating a prescribed social community through juxtaposed styles of art and architecture. This serves as a commentary on gentrification, industrialism, market capitalism, and, life’s necessary evils, which we have indoctrinated as an ethereal good. The building itself serves the duality of heavy and light through the lens of our two artist creators, one of the earth, and the other of the air. The light and the dark, the good and the bad. The duty of this building is to draw in and to question one’s scale, and physical place in the world. The form follows vastness and layered suspension as guiding formal principles and creates interweaving circulatory forms that grant access to and around the artists’ journey of life and creativity. This architecture acts as an ethical reminder of all things, necessary and inherently political. The space accepts and promotes discomfort in scale and materiality, while also embracing light and expansive space.
SITE DIAGRAMS - PROGRAM III
EARTH SCULPTOR
SECTION & SITE DIAGRAMS
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AIR SCULPTOR
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SECTION DIAGRAMS
PLAN CONCEPT STUDIES VI PLAN STUDY OPTION A PLAN STUDY OPTION B
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PROGRAM RESPONSE
STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS ANALYSIS
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MATERIAL ITERATION
PLANS AND PERSPECTIVE MATERIAL STUDY
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LOOKING BACKWARDS TO GO FORWARDS
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Create a tectonic object using rhythm and additive processes as guiding principles. Explore concept elements from your stereotomic decision-making. You may expand your idea. One’s concept, for example, might use proportion as a means of adding or subtracting. Or one’s concept might explore clustered rhythm. The project is constrained within an 8”x8”x8” bounding zone. Working with basswood, we can explore different techniques with you based on your ideas and the best way to represent them.
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Sheltering the individual from the sensually assaulting presence of Speer’s traffic and the background noise pollution of Downtown Denver was my earliest consideration when first experiencing the site. I then considered bringing that intention into the design of the shelter itself. Daring to design something which sheltered one from the build, fabricated environment while at the same time not contributing to it.
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THE SITE SECTION CONTRAST: The sharp edged ramps & stairs with the falling of the leaves for the trees. These art forms so visually aligned to the city senses of the urban Creek-Front Park. It’s both dynamic and serene. The play of shadows on the overhead concrete structures slices the layers of light and darkness, filtering deep within the caverns. The sunken nature of fall against the Rocky Mountains off on the horizon to the west and the College of Architecture & Planning form the upper wall of this sunken amphitheater. Unique city setting in the heart of a thriving metropolis, as an eagle soaring off in the distance.
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